"In any case, I'm glad to be with you all and grateful for any opportunity to pore over this medium that we love and will continue to love, stubbornly, to its final breath. As will, I'm sure, Steven Soderbergh, who, for all his oft-expressed pessimism about the industry, continues to churn out work that feels like a paragon of wit, elegance, and the kind of all-around savoir faire that we used to associate with Hollywood on a more regular basis."
"That's certainly true of the spectacularly fleet and witty , starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as British intelligence agents whose marriage comes under stealth attack from a mole. What ensues is a tour de force of sex, lies, and data scraping, Edward Albee by way of John le Carré, in which our lead agents try to suss out which of their deviously smart and sexy colleagues could be the culprit."
2025 offered one of the most robust and rewarding years for movies since before the pandemic, with a glut of high-quality releases alongside profound industry uncertainty. The year produced cognitive whiplash: a sense of cinematic revival coexisting with deep existential gloom about the industry's future. Steven Soderbergh continued to release work marked by wit, elegance, and classic Hollywood savoir faire. A standout spy film starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett dramatizes British intelligence agents whose marriage is undermined by a mole, blending sex, lies, and data scraping in an Edward Albee–by–way–of–John le Carré mode. Strong ensemble performances include Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, and Marisa Abela.
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